Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 149

Let us have our fill this once!”

Who acts: you, us, our · What happens: let, have, fill · To what, where: us, this

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fill	nsubj
5	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fill	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fill	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us		tree rules
2	have	infinitive	us not said here			tree rules
3	fill	infinitive	our	this	once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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